India, Jan. 30 -- Residents of Palam Vihar's blocks C-1 and C-2 have alleged that irregular, infrequent door-to-door garbage collection was affecting over 2,000 families in the area, with the contractor deploying only 2-3 sanitation workers for hundreds of homes, resulting in collections once every 4-5 days.

"The workers deployed by the contractor are able to collect waste from merely 50 to 60 households in a day. Essentially, garbage is being picked up after four or five days, not daily," claimed Abhishek Sharma, vice president of the Palam Vihar Block C-2 resident welfare association (RWA).

"There is no fixed schedule for collection. At times, the workers arrive early in the morning, while on other days they turn up as late as 10 or 1...